Recommended Resources

Mar 8th, 2020 by Brian Sovryn

 

BOOKS

TECH

  • The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4a (with 4b forthcoming) by Donald Knuth (1968)
  • The Book of IRC by Alex Charabaldilis (2003)

HEALTH & FITNESS

  • How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger (2015)
  • How Not to Diet by Dr. Michael Greger (2019)
  • Food Fix by Dr. Mark Hyman (2020)
  • Keys to the INNER Universe 2nd Edition by Bill Pearl (2015)

ANARCHISM

  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott (2010)
  • Markets Not Capitalism by C4SS (2011)

GENERAL SEMANTICS / NON-ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC / E-PRIME

  • Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, 5th Edition by Alfred Korzybski (1995)
  • To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology by ISGS (1991)
  • More E-Prime: To Be or Not II by ISGS (1994) 
  • E-Prime III: A Third Anthology by ISGS (1997)

PHILOSOPHY

  • The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner (1844)
  • A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist by Michael Onfray (2015)

HISTORY

  • IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black (2012)
  • War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black (2012)
  • The Hiram Key Revisited by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler (1999)

SCIENCE

  • Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward & Donald Brownlee (2003)
  • Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie (2009)
  • The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton (2016)

SCIENCE FICTION

  • Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future by Olaf Stapledon (1930)
  • Last Men in London by Olaf Stapledon (1932)
  • Odd John by Olaf Stapledon (1935)
  • Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937)
  • The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (1955)
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
  • The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks
    • Consider Phlebas (1987)
    • The Player of Games (1988)
    • Use of Weapons (1990)
    • The State of the Art (1991)
    • Excession (1996)
    • Inversions (1998)
    • Look to Windward (2000)
    • Matter (2008)
    • Surface Detail (2010)
    • The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
  • The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Resistance by Vin Suprynowicz (2005)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry (1979)
  • The Astonishing by Peter Orullian & John Petrucci (2019)
  • The World of Null-A Series by A.E. van Vogt
    • The World of Null-A (1948)
    • The Pawns of Null-A (1956)
    • Null-A Three (1984)
    • Null-A Continuum (2008 by John C. Wright)
  • The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A.E. van Vogt (1950)
  • The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison (2005)

PREPAREDNESS

  • The Art of Shen Ku by Zeek (2001)
  • Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, 4th Edition by Abigail Gehring (2014) 
  • The Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living by John & Geri McPherson (2008)
  • Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons (1962)

 

ARTICLES

 

PODCASTS

 

VIDEOS

 

DOCUMENTARIES

  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (BBC; Adam Curtis; 2011)
  • Pumping Iron (Arnold Schwarzenegger; George Butler; 1977)

 

Updated March 6, 2020